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“.1. Reference is made to our CIR- 316/00990- 74 dated 17 a i
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was in Miami, FYorida from il August to z9 August L974,
contacts with Cuban exiles was that of "Asistente Internacional" | a

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Cuban exile group > KASSEL feels his visit to and expenses

‘in Miami can be fully justified. within the context of his

ad functions asa ‘UTC official.

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A. Ignacio LEDON Iglesias, former Miami area

committee. Secretary for Propaganda of the Partido Revolu-
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- C.. Ramiro de LA FE, brother of Ernesto de LA FE
who had been recently released from jail in Cuba.

Dd. Rolando, MASFERRER, Editor of “Libertad.”
 &.. Alberto Siar Wasvidal, Editor ‘of "Miami Extra."
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FL “Max ESNIK, Editor of "Replica."

So Gc. Vicente-RUBIERA, leader of ‘Telephone Workers .
Trade Union in Miami..

- H. sentiago Kor Fornas, 4 former Cuban Minister of
Interior. . , ae an Doe .
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I. Alberto. de RIO Chaviano, former wi General
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5. Following are highlights « offeassai]® report for
our representative who met him, in Miami:

_ A. The Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo (PRP)
has ceased to exist for all practical purposes. According
to Ignacio LEDON, responsibility for the disintegration of the
PRP falls on its leader Antonio | SANTIAGO, _whom [KASSEL describes
as a "farsante."” . G)

OF B. Mario RIVADULLA,’ a ‘member of the PRP Ex eoutiyes
Committee who now lives in Santo Domingo, told /KASSEL] that )
. it is impossible to organize a: political movement in exile
which would be capable of influencing in.any way the develop-
ment of events in Cuba. RIVADULLA now believes that there
is no alternative but ‘to await. a spontaneous change of
events in Cuba and a possible. overthrow or assassination of
‘Castro by the mister, ;

Cc. [kassEi] attended a meeting of about 15 persons
on “16 August presided over by Rolando MASFERRER, Director
_of the weekly "Libertad." MASFERRER told the participants
‘that they should begin firing practice on a Florida farm to
prepare themselves for action against Cuba before November,
because he (MASFERRER). is sure that Castro will be overthrown
by that time. MASFERRER pointed out’ that U. S. Security and

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‘Intelligence Services are aware of his plans and that he has
no difficulty in their implementation. Participants at

the meeting were then asked to contribute funds for the

urcha of weapons; the total cash raised exceeded $1,000.00.
KASSELftommented that it is his impressiof that the. funds
raised were intended for MASFERRER's Personal use rather

than the purchase of soapons.

D. asset’ discussed with. ‘Ramiro de LA FE the
possibility of founding .a conspiratorial and secret political
movement to create a mechanism of. penetrating Cuba for the
purpose ‘of contributing © to conditions which would result in
a military coup against Castro.. The movement would be

. headed "in absentia" by’ Ernesto de-LA FE, who had been

. |]. released from prison in Cuba two months ago. The decision

fo launch. this movement Was made“on 25 August in the apart-
of Ay ro de LA FE. Present at that time, in addition
Big tess d Ramiro de-KA FE, were Armando NEDINA, Manuel

CRVEDAS and Miguel A. ZERQUEIRA | (Cubans) and Juan. LOPEZ
(naturalized American). The new movement’ was named-Movimiento ;

( Independence. Radical_de, Cuba. (MIRC) and Ramiro de LA FE pole
was named its temporary leader. until such time as Ernesto
de LA FE can leave Cuba.. The MIRC will seek contact with .

Cuban armed forces to launch a: coup against Castro and it.

will also seek contact with anti-Communist groups in Brazil

and with the government of Chile. ‘Ramiro de LA FE claimed

already to have contact with Patricia-BERDUGO, a-Chilean

- supposedly working for the Chilean. Intelligence Service in
Miami. During the meeting, Armando MEDINA said that he

_» had once worked for CIA and thas he participated in an

attack on a Spanish merchant vessel which was. mistaken for
‘the Sierra_Maestra of the Cuban Merchant ap [kassetjG)

was named [the Editor of. the MIRC Manifesto ich will be
_ published in the ae American press on October.

E. KASSE Se with Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, ‘Editor-
in- Chief of "Miami Extra’,"' and offered his services as. an
unpaid contributor of articles from Bogota. The offer
was accepted. ; ae ;

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6. ]KASSEL's draft report to his Soviet contact in
Bogota is a single-spaced nine-page paper entitled "Composicion
“politica de la Emigracion Cubana en. Miami, Florida." It so
covers those groups with which KASSEL hag become most
familiar: the PRP, the MIRC, Alfa 66, amd several. other ,
minor groups. . Following are highlights of that report:] &.

‘A. [In response to a‘specific requirement from
-KASSEL's Soviet ‘contact to determine if U.S.- Government
agencies, including specifically the CIA, support any of
these groups, KASSEL makes emphatically clear in his report
that none of the exile groups have the support of the U.S.

- Government, although some groups falsely claim to have such
support. He points out that: the U.S. Government not only
ignores. the political exiles,: but places high priority on

its relations with the USSR and is ‘disposed’ to lift the

blgskade of Cuba and reestablish relations with Havana. .

‘In connection with the latter point, KASSEL reports on his
interview with Dr. Alberto DIAZ Masvidal, Director of the
Spanish edition of Miami Herald, who told KASSEL that
reestablishment of U.S. - Cuban relations is now imminent.]G)

7 . B. Regarding on-island operations of Cuban exile
_. groups, [KASSEL oncludes that none of them have any operational
contacts in Guba. ; eh te ; . :

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— .  G, Regarding terrorism, [KASSEL] eeports that
Dr. Orlando BOSCH, a fugitive from the U.S. who now lives
in Venezuela under an assumed jdentity, and Antonio’ VECIANA,.
a founding member of the PRP who is now in prison, have a -
plan of attack against Cuban embassies and consulates and
. against Soviet Bloc missions in Latin America, to be put:
- gnto effect when Venezuela, Costa Rica, and other unidentified
countries reestablisli relations with Cuba. He also singles
out Jose de- Jesus QINQAUMA, a Cuban political gangster who
“Jast year planned an attack against a Soviet family in
Venezuela, and the Frente Unido de Liberacion, which was
|] gormed this month in Miami and which announced the launching
of a terrorist campaign against Cuban and Soviet Bloc ,
diplomatic installations in the entire Western Hemisphere.

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4 If you wish, we will forward to you copies of
9 fiasse Ss reports to our representative (paragraph 5 above)
fant to his Soviet contact in Bogotey sy aceraph 6 above).

8. We shall advise you if [Kasse] Qeits Miami again
fon a mission for his Soviet contact in Bogota.S6)If and when
e does, we shall request that a Miami representative of
the Bureau participate in our representative's meetings
with [RASSEL|O)as the subject matter oF ASSES reporting
ais 0 ‘direct interest to the Bureau. — ;

FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS:

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